Famous ciphertexts

Some famous ciphertexts (or cryptograms) are:

• The Babington Plot ciphers
• The Shugborough inscription
• The Zimmermann Telegram
  

  

  Elgar's Dorabella letter
• The Magic Words are Squeamish Ossifrage
• The cryptogram in "The Gold-Bug"
• Beale ciphers
• Voynich Manuscript
• Dorabella Cipher
• Quipu
• Kryptos
• Zodiac Killer ciphers
• D'Agapeyeff cipher
• Chaocipher

• Message breaking off negotiations, sent by Japan just prior to the attack on Pearl Harbor
• Smithy code, embedded within the 2006 judgement on The Da Vinci Code case

See also

• Topics in cryptography
• Category:Inscriptions
• Category:Uncracked codes and ciphers

External links

• Elonka's List of Famous Unsolved Codes and Ciphers
• Cryptology section (The rec.puzzles archive)

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